user local wrote:
2007/4/3, CentOS List <centoslist@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi,
Does CentOS 5 / RH 5 ship with a similar windows active directory and
able
to support windows workstations? I've of heard OpenLDAP and FDS. Does
windows support those?
LDAP+Kerberos+smthM$specs=Active_Directory. You also should use Samba and
have a Primary Domain Controller for you Windows clients. Active_Directory
uses DNS to solve hosts to addresses, so you don't need a WINS server,
though. I think the point to start w/ is Samba:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ ,
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ (jump to Chapter 5, maybe
it's all you need)
AFAIK CentOS has an Anaconda chapter dedicated to installation of Kerberos,
and LDAP, too, so you have no excuse to miss the party :D. Sorry about I am
not more useful for you, but I think it's feasible. I would try it. (I have
no experience w/ Kerberos, very little w/ OpenLDAP, Samba, and... CentOS).
Assuming you're already a somewhat competent Windows user (ie you meet
the prerequisites), then a one-week course makes you competent (not
expert, that comes only with experience) to create and administer an AD
setup. I've done the course, though I was a little light on the
prerequisites, and have some experience here.
Microsoft has this nice big GUI that takes most of the pain out of it,
one just has to have some idea of what one's doing.
Until Red Hat and/or SUSE ships the tools to replicate AD's
functionality, it's not there. Few enterprises are going to spend
shareholder funds on a speculative venture to do the same job with
harder-to-use tools. The tools will have to be better, and demonstrably
able to save money.
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Cheers
John
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